Founder/CEO of CJ Young Consulting, LLC
Episode page: https://www.leanblog.org/436
My guest for Episode #436 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Dr. Cynthia J. Young, PMP, LSS MBB, CMQ-OE, the Founder/CEO of CJ Young Consulting, LLC.
Cindy helps organizations optimize human-centric knowledge to increase trust and support collaboration and inclusion. She is a TEDx Speaker, an HBR Contributor, and a Veteran (23 years in the U.S. Navy)
She is also a Curriculum Developer and Instructor with Leidos, an engineering and defense contractor.
Cindy is also presenting a webinar on February 10th, part of the KaiNexus CI Webinar series… learn more and register here:
Impactful Methods to Benefit Organizational Knowledge Management and Continuous Improvement Efforts
She is also leading an upcoming “Knowledge Management Bootcamp.”
Today, we discuss topics and questions including:
Origin story as a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt? –> In the Navy
Combining LSS, PMP, CMQ-OE certifications?
What is “knowledge management” in the context of organizations? Leadership & technology??
Five Ways to Protect Yourself from a Layoff Using Knowledge Management
We should “Resist hoarding knowledge” — is that counterintuitive?


This sharing had big benefits to you and your career?
Breaking down silos?
Applying KM to Lean and applying Lean to KM?
Waste of capturing knowledge that doesn't get used?
Examples of good practices? 
Mistakes people make with knowledge?

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